[Beagle8U]

“Full Boat scholarship is not enough comp?”

But if they get injured playing they lose the scholarship, which makes it a pile of crap.

[Alberta's Child]

When the 1980 U.S. Olympic ice hockey team was being assembled, a number of the top players were good enough to be signed to professional contracts. Delaying their careers to play in the Olympics put their financial fortunes in jeopardy to some degree, and for some of these guys it was a big deal.

The U.S. Olympic Committee was able to protect the players while still maintaining their amateur status by paying for insurance policies that would have covered them in the event of injuries.

I can't imagine the NCAA or individual schools couldn't do the same thing for college athletes.

[100American]

Not at USC in California, even if you go to the draft before graduation you can come back and finish under the scholarship. It is a tough school and they do not have baby courses, over 50,000 applicants a year for 5,000 openings and 200Kplus for 4 years. My daughter not a sporto finished in 4 and paid off her student loans in full

Each school is different but the NCAA pushes the limits by marketing the players while still in school through gaming companies and the person they use as bait gets nada